Glossary

Aperture: A space through which light passes in a special optical or photographic instrument.
Camera Obscurer:
Contact Print: A photographic print made by placing a negative directly onto sensitized paper,glass or film and illuminating it.
Developer: A person or thing that develops something. A chemical agent used for treatin
g photographic film to make a visible image.
Exposure: The state of being exposed to contact with something.
Fixer: A substance used for fixing a photographic image.
Photogram: A picture produced with photographic materials, such as a light -sensitive paper, but with out a camera.
Photosensitive: having a chemical,electrical or other response to light.
Pointillism: A technique of neo-Impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, whic

h become blended in viewers eye.
Positive:Showing lights and shades or colors true to the original.
Shutter:A device that opens and closes to expose the film in a camera.
Transparency:An image, text, or positive transparent photograph printed on transparent plastic or glass, able to be viewed using a projector.

When and Who made the first photograph?
Who made the first photographic negative?

COLOUR THEORY

Name the primary colours?
Blue,Red,Yellow

What are the two characteristics that are specific to primary colours?
No other colours can be mixed to make a primary. Primary make all other colours halfs.

How do you make secondary colours?
P.P=S primary+primary=secondary colour.

Name the secondary colours?

Green,Violet and Orange

How do you make a tertiary colour?
Primary+secondary P.S=T

How many tertiary colours are there?
Thousands that can been seen by the human eye.

If White is not a colour what is it?
All colour reflected.

If black is not a colour what is it?
No colour reflected.

What is a Hue?
A pure colour.

What is a colour saturation?
Using black and or white mixed with a colour.

How do you make a tint?
Colour with white i.e pink.

How do you make a shade?
Colour+Black.

How do you make a tone?
Grey+colour.

What is a colour harmony?
Colours that sit next to each other in the

colour wheel.

What is a complementary colour?
Opposites on the colour wheel.

Name the 3 pairs of complementary colours?
Yellow and Violet Red and Green Blue and Orange

What happens when you put two complementary colours next to one another?
They make each other stand out.

What do you get when you mix complementary colours?
Browns, Neutral and earthy colour

What is a colour?
Colour reflected.

Draw the colour wheel.